You could just mine on eligius. No account required, so anyone can see the stats without any login.

I'll look into that. I decided to go with slush's pool. Mostly because it is the original bitcoin mining pool and also happens to be the largest merged mining pool. I've also been quite impressed with how slush has handled the attacks on his pool.

You should be PPS mining with 0% fee for profitability purposes. Slush's pool is good but has gone down hill since he went down for I think 3 days and it has greatly effected the amount of blocks found there which will lower your profits

I decided on a 1BTC weekly dividend for the following reasons:1) A 1BTC dividend would be easily sustainable with the current operation. 2) A 1BTC dividend leaves room for future dividend increases. 3) The company is still raising funds for future operations/expansion. 4) A 1BTC dividend makes it very simple for investors to gauge their ownership share in the company.

My goal in running this company is to provide a reliable dividend and build value for my investors over the long term. I don't feel paying out 100% of profits is the best way to achieve this goal.

I decided on a 1BTC weekly dividend for the following reasons:1) A 1BTC dividend would be easily sustainable with the current operation. 2) A 1BTC dividend leaves room for future dividend increases. 3) The company is still raising funds for future operations/expansion. 4) A 1BTC dividend makes it very simple for investors to gauge their ownership share in the company.

My goal in running this company is to provide a reliable dividend and build value for my investors over the long term. I don't feel paying out 100% of profits is the best way to achieve this goal.

Maybe you can make a publicy viewabe spreadsheet with some info. Doesn't need to be fancy, neither does it necessarily need to be complete (date, current hashrate, BTC holdings, USD holdings, dividend payed, power payed, hardware payed...), one row each day or week or even irregularly

I decided on a 1BTC weekly dividend for the following reasons:1) A 1BTC dividend would be easily sustainable with the current operation. 2) A 1BTC dividend leaves room for future dividend increases. 3) The company is still raising funds for future operations/expansion. 4) A 1BTC dividend makes it very simple for investors to gauge their ownership share in the company.

My goal in running this company is to provide a reliable dividend and build value for my investors over the long term. I don't feel paying out 100% of profits is the best way to achieve this goal.

Maybe you can make a publicy viewabe spreadsheet with some info. Doesn't need to be fancy, neither does it necessarily need to be complete (date, current hashrate, BTC holdings, USD holdings, dividend payed, power payed, hardware payed...), one row each day or week or even irregularly

I'll be honest... I'm not going to update a spreadsheet daily and I think that is in your best interests. Who is to say the manually entered information isn't manipulated, incorrect, or outright fradulent? I'm all for automated solutions that can't be manually altered and I have been looking into what is possible. I'll be adding more statistics as soon as I can, although electricty usage will be a tough one (maybe a webcam showing the kill-a-watt meter?). I can add hardware costs and will do so if you'd like. The current hash rate, dividends paid, current hardware, and BTC holdings are all shown on the first page of this thread. Current BTC holdings shows the amount of NMC that have been converted to BTC (none have been converted yet) and are being held in "savings." I think having all of the information available on one thread and updated in real time is actually more beneficial than a spreadsheet located on a different site that has to be manually updated. Perhaps eventually we will have our own website with all of this information available in a sexy format. First, we need to generate more profits, which takes time.

I'll be honest... I'm not going to update a spreadsheet daily and I think that is in your best interests. Who is to say the manually entered information isn't manipulated, incorrect, or outright fradulent? I'm all for automated solutions that can't be manually altered and I have been looking into what is possible. I'll be adding more statistics as soon as I can, although electricty usage will be a tough one (maybe a webcam showing the kill-a-watt meter?). I can add hardware costs and will do so if you'd like. The current hash rate, dividends paid, current hardware, and BTC holdings are all shown on the first page of this thread. Current BTC holdings shows the amount of NMC that have been converted to BTC (none have been converted yet) and are being held in "savings." I think having all of the information available on one thread and updated in real time is actually more beneficial than a spreadsheet located on a different site that has to be manually updated. Perhaps eventually we will have our own website with all of this information available in a sexy format. First, we need to generate more profits, which takes time.

It doesn't need to be daily.

The drawback of updating the info in thread is: you dont see the history, which is important.